As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence.

Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.

Everything is a test.Either you win or lose, either you commit yourself or not, it's all up to you.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

In addition to showing gratitude to others, place emphasis on showing gratitude to yourself

We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

Knowledge isn’t love

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.